Jane Jones

Independent Councillor for Stockland Green Ward

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Seven hours. All children.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I am horrified that a car has been deliberately set alight outside the home of the family of Salma Yaqoob, a wonderful prominent anti-racist and peace campaigner in Birmingham.

I hope the police take this shocking incident seriously. Sending my solidarity to Salma & her family.

[Save Gaza @Alee93ale]

🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: British surgeon gives HORRIFYING testimony to the UK Parliament.

He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children, right on the spot.

Repost this. Please I beg you

[Unite For A Workers' Economy @UniteEconomy]

Did you see this car crash interview on ITV with @CllrMajid about the #BrumBinStrike earlier this week?

⁉️No answers to questions, just robotically churning out soundbites about 'open doors' and 'multiple offers' that have no basis in reality

😲Can't even say when @BhamCityCouncil last spoke to Unite (clue for Majid - it was last July)

🤦Claims ACAS are involved when @bhamlabour effectively abandoned ACAS talks

#Birmingham voters will be looking at this in utter disbelief.

[Francesca Martinez @chessmartinez]

I am grateful to @ZackPolanski and the Green Party for giving me a glimmer of hope in these turbulent times.

Over the last few years, I've found myself waking up in the middle of the night, with a sense of dread. I lie awake and worry about what will happen if Reform win the next election. I didn't expect to be worrying about Britain becoming a fascist country, but that's exactly what has been, almost constantly, occupying a corner of my brain.

I look to America and see what the election of Trump has done to the country. A man who pledged to 'Make America Great Again' and conned people into believing that he was anti-establishment and would stop wars. What Trump has actually done, has been to oversee a huge transfer of wealth to the richest – over $2 TRILLION – and to spark further wars around the globe.

Like Trump, Reform are backed by billionaires.

If you want to know who a party represents, just follow the money. Don't listen to empty words which claim to represent working people or 'challenge the status quo'. Don't fall for the slick words delivered by a bloke that seems like a good guy to 'have a pint with down the pub'. Look at who is giving him money. That will tell you the truth. That will show you whose side they are really on.

In 2024, 92% of Reform's donations came from fossil fuel interests. Since 2023, Reform has received almost £5m from wealthy donors, including those linked to fossil fuels, the financial services industry, private healthcare and tax havens. These backers will be dictating their policy.

If a party is funded by the establishment, it will serve the establishment. Any claim made that it's an anti-establishment party, is simply a lie designed to trick people into voting for a party who, like Trump, will enrich the powerful while hammering the many.

Equally absurd, is the attempt to portray Farage's Reform as the party of 'patriots'.
- What is patriotic about voting against making school uniforms cheaper and free meals for primary children?
- What is patriotic about voting against the Employment Rights Bill which will make 'Fire and Rehire' illegal and extend parental rights?
- What is patriotic about wanting to dismantle our NHS and make people pay for health insurance? (The NHS isn't struggling because of immigrants, but because successive governments have cut over 150,000 beds and closed down 100+ hospitals.)
- What is patriotic about voting against more rights for tenants and renters?
- What is patriotic about voting against measures to improve fairness and rights at work?
- What is patriotic about pledging to slash disability and sickness payments to the poorest in society?
- What is patriotic about pledging to lower the minimum wage for young people?
- What is patriotic about scrapping net-zero targets and increasing dirty energy projects?

I'm guessing, for most of us, patriotism means providing quality healthcare, fair wages, employment rights and housing rights for all British people (regardless of economic status) It means wanting our children to be looked after and fed properly in school. It means making sure all British people who are sick, disabled and elderly, are supported to lead dignified lives. And it means protecting the future of young Britons, by adopting climate-friendly policies to ensure they are not left to face the disasters of runaway climate change. True patriotism is about fighting for the rights of the many, and not the few.

If you want to know how to spot a true anti-establishment party, here are two things to look out for:
1) It won't be backed by tax-dodging billionaires.
2) It will be attacked by the mainstream media and / or ignored. (And it won't be invited onto TV shows every week.)

In the coming months and years, the establishment's smear-machine, operated by their trusty allies (the corporate media), will kick into overdrive, and Zack and the Greens will be relentlessly attacked as dangerous / extremist / fantasists / anti-British / unelectable.

Make no mistake, these attacks are concrete proof that they are ON YOUR SIDE.

If we can remember this, we have a chance of changing this corrupt political system from one which is dictated by elite interests to one which actually represents us, the people. But this will only be possible, if we see though their cynical attempts to divide us by spreading hate and fear.

[Ben 'Draw my Town' Poultney @drawmytown]

Welcome tourists & visitors to Birmingham City Centre, Britain's Second City! ✨✨✨

This is just a 10 min stroll between 2 of it's Train Stations.

@BhamCityCouncil do you ever walk through here, or have you just given up?

#Brum #Birmingham

[Benonwine @benonwine]

Shocking Sight: Trophy Hunter Brittany L. killed this beautiful male leopard in his prime.😱😡

Let’s make this women famous 👇
Repost and spread this far and wide.

BAN TROPHY HUNTING NOW!

[Cllr Martin Brooks @martinibrooks]

Great result for residents supported by @CE_LawCentre in getting @BhamCityCouncil planning approval for Druids Heath regeneration declared unlawful by Courts. Housing affordability and rightof residents to return must be addressed in any new application.

https://t.co/rbOBAjVpwd

[Netflix @netflix]

ALEX HONNOLD AFTER COMPLETING HIS FREE SOLO OF TAIPEI 101: "Sick."

The 101 story climb took 1 hour and 35 minutes #SkyscraperLIVE

[Mark Gray-Mendes @TJCoachMark]

Alex Honnold is one of the greatest athletes I’ve ever seen. What he just did live from Taipei is insane and astonishing.

Humanity is amazing and worth saving.

[Unite For A Workers' Economy @UniteEconomy]

"It is unprecedented. As a former trade union organiser, I've never heard anything like it"

MPs debated the #BrumBinStrike on Wednesday, and @IanByrneMP gave his opinion on strike-breaking agency workers joining the strike themselves.

It says a lot about the @BrumLabour leadership's mishandling of this dispute that they've provoked this unique turn of events.

Ian is absolutely spot on in his summary of the strike here.

If only his @UKLabour colleagues running @BhamCityCouncil would take notice and do the right thing for workers and #Birmingham residents - get back to negotiations.

[Unite For A Workers' Economy @UniteEconomy]

Thanks to Councillor Katherine Iroh for taking the time to listen to our concerns about @BhamCityCouncil handling of the bins dispute - it’s appreciated.

The only way this dispute is going to be resolved is through dialogue - the council need to back to the table and negotiate.

[Barbara Dring @BarbaraDring]

Put the offer that was agreed with ACASS and Chief Exec is. There no desire to settle this dispute

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

£200bn has been paid out to shareholders of privatised utility companies since 2010.

Private equity runs our social care.

And we don't tax the super-wealthy enough.

That's why everything's too expensive, but nothing works.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans not allowed to attend Aston Villa UEFA Europa match due to safety concerns.

This is what happened last time the genocidal racist violent hooligans visited Europe @pularjs

[Cllr Martin Brooks @martinibrooks]

Important development in our fight to save open space at Queen’s Park and other green space across the city, when a @BhamCityCouncil scrutiny committee voted UNANIMOUSLY to call in the Cabinet decision to sell off the sites.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

This is an extremely significant research report setting out the scale of the rip off of privatisation. £200 billion paid to shareholders that should have been invested in the services.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

You have humiliated our country @YvetteCooperMP & @Keir_Starmer !

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

This is Unacceptable

[Unite For A Workers' Economy @UniteEconomy]

Thanks to Barbara and @Jane4labour, two local Councillors who came down to support the bin strikers at their Family Fun Day.

#VictoryToTheBinWorkers